What we do

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) is the pioneer of programmable logic solutions, enabling system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate, and win in their markets. Altera offers FPGAs, CPLDs, and ASICs in combination with software tools, intellectual property, and customer support to provide high-value programmable solutions to over 12,000 customers worldwide. Altera was founded in 1983 and has annual revenues in 2009 of US$1.20 billion. Altera is headquartered in San Jose, California, and employs approximately 2,600 people in 19 countries.

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Xilinx is the world’s leading provider of programmable platforms. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Xilinx invented the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and fulfills more than half of the demand for these devices today.  Xilinx programmable logic provides revolutionary alternative to custom logic chips that require weeks or months of design time as a "fabless" semiconductor company.
 

Mentor Graphics® is a leader in electronic design automation. We enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. Our innovative products and solutions help engineers conquer design challenges in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design. Precise-IP is a Precision Synthesis tool that generates vendor-independent HDL for commonly used IP building blocks. With an ever-increasing library, the easy-to-use wizard guides users to create widely used IP cores such as memories and arithmetic functions for easy re-use. These cores are optimized to provide the best quality of results across FPGA families